Bhubaneswar, Oct 26 (UNI) As many as 1480 people were detected covid positive during the last 24 hours in Odisha pushing the cumulative Covid-19 tally in the state to 2,82,695.
Meanwhile, the death toll due to coronavirus touched 1259 as 14 more patients succumbed to the infection in the last 24 hours, the State Health and Family Welfare Department sources here said.
Information and Public Relations department sources said out of the fresh 1480 covid positive cases while 858 were from various quarantine centres 622 are local contacts.